Milestone Activity

Overview and Key Concepts

The Milestone activity is used to signal that some object has acheived
a milestone. You can place this activity at any important point
in your Process Flow, and specify the object that has acheived
a milestone.

The Milestone activity is designed to work with Milestone Collectors.
For more information on how to use milestones effectively in your model,
see the
Using Milestone Collectors
topic.

This activity allows you to specify the follwing things:

The Milestone Collector should this activity reference,

The name of the Milestone this activity will update, and

The involved object.

The referenced Milestone Collector will make sure there is a column
for the specified milestone. When a token enters this activiy,
the Milestone Collector will update the time in that milestone
column.

You can also specify whether future milestones should be recorded
on a new row of the Milestone Collector's table.

Properties

Name

Used to change the name of the activity. See
Name for more information
about this property.

Font

The Font button
opens a window to edit the activity's
background color and font properties. See
Font for more information
about this property.

Statistics

The Statistics button
opens the activity's statistics
window. See Statistics
for more information about this property.

Milestone Collector

The Milestone Collector property
determines which Milestone Collector this activity will affect.

Milestone Name

The Milestone Name property
determines which milestone will be updated when a token
crosses enters this activity. The referenced Milestone
Collector will assert a column with this name.

Involved

This property indicates which object has acheived the current
milestone. The Milestone collector will assert a row for that
object, and update the time in the specified column.

Start new entry on next milestone

Check this box to indicate that if the involved object acheives
any additional milestones, then the referenced Collector should
use a new row to record the milestone time. This option
can be used to prevent recirculating items from overwriting
their milestone data.